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Page 10 - In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amidst the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

Page 10 - Take up our quarrel with the foe; To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

Page 11 - Rest ye in peace, ye Flanders dead. The fight that ye so bravely led We've taken up. And we will keep True faith with you who lie asleep With each a cross to mark his bed, And poppies blowing overhead, Where once his own life blood ran red. So let your rest be sweet and deep In Flanders fields.

Page 11 - Fear not that ye have died for naught. The torch ye threw to us we caught. Ten million hands will hold it high, And Freedom's light shall never die! We've learned the lesson that ye taught In Flanders fields.

Page 45 - ... Representatives of the Russian Bolsheviki element cross to the German side to arrange negotiations for an immediate armistice "of all belligerents." November 28. — A Scandinavian conference is opened at Christiania, Norway, with King Gustav, of Sweden, and King Christian, of Denmark, as guests of King Haakon. The revolutionary government in Russia makes public a secret agreement entered into (on April 26, 1915) by Great Britain, France, and Russia, with Italy; in return for joining the Entente,...

Page 58 - Berlin state that the general strike urged bv the Radical Socialists, under leadership of Dr. Karl Liebknecht, has become widespread and serious. PRESIDENT WILSON IN EUROPE December 4. — President Wilson sails from New York for Europe, to attend conferences on the larger phases of the treaty of peace. December 13. — President Wilson lands at Brest, the French port used during the war as the principal debarkation point for American troops. December 14. — President Wilson and President Poincare...

Page 25 - ... Dardanelles entrance forts capitulate to English and French. March 4 — Landing of allied troops on both sides of Dardanelles straits reported; German U-4 sunk by French destroyers. March 10 — Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins. March 14 — German cruiser Dresden sunk in Pacific by English. March 18 — British battleships Irresistible and Ocean and French battleship Bouvet sunk in Dardanelles strait. March 22 — Fort of Przemysl surrenders to Russians. March 23 — Allies land troops on Gallipoli...